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However, Kaplan and Elfont revealed to the outlet that they received no money for this placement (though Kaplan clarified that some of the clothing companies, including Steve Madden and Puma, supplied costumes). : I read an interview you did where you said you felt like you were put in "movie jail" after Josie and the Pussycats. All of the songs were re-released on a 2001 compilation, Stop, Look and Listen The Capitol Recordings. This page is not available in other languages. Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor had come to Hollywood from her native South Dakota with a country and western band that broke up and went back home almost immediately upon arrival. When Josie and the Pussycats hit theaters on April 9, 2001, Du Jour was a four-man caricature that parodied the bands dominating the charts and hearts of listeners on a seismic, international scale. Nobody knows your age, girl!'" DuBois had a prolific career beyond the 1970s hit "Good Times . She also released a Gold album and a top-40 single ("Think It Over") on Capitol the following year. And I went in the booth and I did my very, very best and I got a call the next day that I would not be singing in the movie. I always thought it was a ballsy thing for Universal to do, which was make a movie that was blisteringly honest and harsh about the industry and the duality of all of these things how something so pure is being used as a surgical needle to infiltrate the minds of young consumers. But here's the thing mostly male film critics failed torealize at the time: Josie and the Pussycatswhich starred Rachael Leigh Cook (lead singer Josie), Tara Reid (drummer Melody)and Rosario Dawson (bassist Val)was supposed to be weird and wacky and wasn't really meant for them. Seth Green & Donald Faison Revisit 'Josie & the Pussycats' and Du Jour, Your Favorite Fake Boy Band "I'm just gonna let you know before we go any further: NOBODY ROCKS THE MIC LIKE DU JOUR. And I can't tell you how many people shared a photo of you from this movie. I probably know more of it than I ever intended from having never sat down and tried to, you know?, Faison is more exuberant in his answer. Josie and the Pussycats is an extremely self-referential movie, and as it draws to a close and Fiona and Wyatt are punished for their crimes by their own collaborator, government official Agent Kelly (Tom Butler) it sneaks one more meta moment in before Josie and the band play their triumphant final concert. Ultimately, it paid off the trio looks mostly at home with their respective instruments thanks to all of their effort. As a result, they decided to rely on product placement as a way to make up for their lack of talent. I'm just lucky my eyebrows grew back. Fiona, of course, is baffled, thanks to Agent Kelly's complete complicity up until this point until he whispers to her that the United States government was going to shut down the entire operation anyway thanks to their discovery that subliminal messaging is much more effective in movies. It's still surprising to me to this day that they let us make the version of it that we did because I'm not even sure they knew that that's what was coming. ], E! E! I don't know. Also present on the album are covers of Bobby Sherman's "La, La, La (If I Had You)", the Carpenters' "(They Long To Be) Close To You", and Bread's "It Don't Matter to Me". By having these brands involved in the movie, the producers were able to get more money and ensure that their product placements would be prominently featured. Janssen refused to recast Holloway, whose voice he felt he needed for the soul-inspired bubblegum pop songs he had written, and threatened to walk away from the project. Im just gonna let you know before we go any further: NOBODY ROCKS THE MIC LIKE DU JOUR. The Josie and the Pussycats are first introduced in the episode The Backstabbings of Riverdale. However, you might not have realized years ago that the members of DuJour are pretty famous. I remember very clearly that that movie with Sean Penn where he plays a jazz musician [Ed's note: 1999's Sweet and Lowdown]. They just have great taste. As the second collaboration between Khalid and Disclosure following their Grammy-nominated Talk, this new song is an uplifting bop. 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Also, pay close attention to the band's name "du jour" means "of the day" in French, meaning they're nothing more than a fleeting phenomenon. : OK, this is random, but I once posed a question on Twitter asking for people to share the photo of a celebrity they had brought to a hairstylist as inspiration to which they should've said, "No, don't do that. I was aware that She's All That had made quite a bit of money and I hadn't done something for a studio that was released I think as widely. To show their gratitude, a number of the most notable soul session players in the city offered their services to La La Productions and the Josie album at a fraction of their regular fees. E! That certainty feels comforting.The repetition sounds a little like a lullaby. Christine and the Queens newest single, People, Ive Been Sad, is a stunning presentation of vocal ability and creative direction. If it had been released now, word-of-mouth could've made it bigger. Im just putting it out there.. But it's very easy if somebody doesn't like your movie to sit back and say, "Yeah well, we weren't making it for you anyway." At the time there was the whole beef between like, Eminem and *NSYNC, or how people viewed certain boy bands, Faisonrecalls of the days whenEminem would name-checkand threatenChris Kirkpatrick in a smash hit like 2002s Without Me.Certain boy bands were too popcorn; other boy bands were not popcorn enough. The first Dujours Song of the Year competition was held in 2014. The winner of the Electronica category was a British DJ and producer named Jamie xx. RLC: That's so true. She is portrayed in The Matrix by Australian actress Ada Nicodemou. : But you did learn how to play guitar?RLC: Yes! 100 percent! he exclaims. The winner of the Pop category was a Canadian singer-songwriter named Justin Bieber. Her subsequent films include the psychological thriller The Safety of Objects (2001), the indie drama Josie and the Pussycats (2001), the horror film Seance (2002), the action film Final Destination 2 (2003), the comedy The Devil Wears Prada (2006), the science fiction thriller Surrogates (2009), and the comedy drama The Good Wife (2009). "We didn't get money for it, and that was the big scandal, I guess, when the movie came out," Kaplan told Buzzfeed. : You can definitely see that chemistry between the three of you onscreen. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google. It's kind of hard to tell, but at times, you can. I love trying new recipes and exploring different cuisines. She is an American actress, model and producer. John sang demos for the band and when, in Kipner's opinion, the group could not recreate . I might've been occasionally or at least onscreen, again occasionally poised, but I was a moron, for real. Placement numrot sur place Premier arriv, premier servi Du jour is an adjective used only after a noun, as in. E! Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. That makes me so happy. None of the singles charted, resulting in poor sales and a shelved national tour. Hey kitty girls! During their tours are always involved in strange mysteries. RLC: Completely. It's just too surreal. For us to be in a boy band together and pretend that we could sing and dance and that we had all of these crazy fans, it was amazing. The fact that it got to the point that we are talking about it 20 years later, I guess word-of-mouth works. A new banger from the electro-pop duo Phantogram has us super amped for their upcoming album due out March 6, Christine and the Queens released a Euro-pop hit in which she serenades listeners in French during one verse, and of course, a collaborative track from Khalid and Disclosure will have your adrenaline pumping in no time. Other lead vocals were performed by Cherie Moor. Josie and the Pussycats is a seriously meta movie. They did not get it at all. In 2001, directing duo Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan turned threeArchie comics characters into one of the decade's most underappreciated comedies when they brought Josie and the Pussycats to the big screen, using the story of a plucky girl band to skewer consumerism in the funniest possible way. 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It only became apparent in that I had fewer options. California Consumer Privacy Act | It was a great time. E! This is a question that has been on the minds of Riverdale fans since the shows debut. Was that connection immediate? That was a very fond memory, just speaking of that age and how it was then. However, in the years since, critics and fans revisited this movie and decided that not only is it actually a pretty good movie, but that its message about capitalism and consumerism have only become more relevant in the years since its release. Tara, Rosario, Alan, Parker, the whole cast, I feel like we were incredibly lucky to be there, but they made the movie work if it did in any way. And The CW'sRiverdale did their take on Josie and the Pussycats. Apparently, the film department at UC Santa Cruz and a couple other select people were like championing it. : Going back and watching, it's really interesting seeing just how weird and satirical and ahead of its time the movie was in many ways, especially for that era. The red was incredibly difficult to keep in. Be warned as I've marked spoilers for winners of seasons and Miss Congeniality, respectively. Cook married actor Daniel Gillies on August 26, 2004. When Josie, Melody, and Valerie's Riverdale bullies show up at their New York hotel room, reborn as their biggest fans, Wyatt scolds the Pussycats for being shocked, telling them that normally, people have to wait for their "ten year high school reunion for that sort of revenge." : And the list of people who auditioned for this movie is crazy. It's just a long path. So far, the Josie and the Pussycats have only been in one episode of Riverdale. Thank you for your understanding. DuJour was the perfect satire of the cultural obsession with the cookie-cutter boy bands of the era. About us. Having signed with the label as a solo artist in 1965, she was the only one of the three finalists with prior ties to Capitol Records (the label that released the Pussycats' album and singles). It might seem weird that MegaRecords would promote this specific movie instead of consumer goods, but there's a reason for this; Elfont and Kaplan also wrote and directed Can't Hardly Wait a few years earlier in 1998. All rights reserved. And I think that American Pie was through Universal as well, so she was grandfathered in through that. With a little help from my inner Nancy Drew (and saboteur), the list of each RuGirl's astrological sign has been updated! But I just don't remember looking at how much money it had made. The three actresses alternated between songs, depending on who had the lead part in the scene. Over the last two decades, Josie and the Pussycats has become a generation-defining cult classic, simultaneously being ahead of its time with its take on consumerism and the state of pop music and yet a perfect encapsulation of the Y2K era, Carson Daly cameo included. [2] Holloway also sings lead on the Josie and the Pussycats theme song, which was written by Hanna-Barbera musical director Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. E! I remember Deb and Harry sort of saying in the room, like, "That was great. "I always thought it was a ballsy . They told us they were thinking about me and Donald and Breckin in a boy band in Josie, and we all thought that would be very, very funny, says Green. You wash your hair once when you have red hair and you could look like a sick, pink-haired rabbit the next day. Right on cue, the screen flashes with its own "subliminal message," with text across the screen as well as narration reading, "Josie and the Pussycats is the best movie ever" followed in smaller text with "Join the Army." Other music all-stars who worked on the Josie soundtrack include Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, who helped write "Three Small Words," to Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, who wrote and produced almost everything on the soundtrack. Let's start with the meaning of du jour. I thought that was very clever, and worth talking about, even in a comedic way. Directed and written byHarry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Josie and the Pussycats became one of the early aughts' biggest box office bombs. This weeks Sound Bite features new music from pop singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor, featuring two of our favorite up-and-coming starlets, Lennon Stella and Sasha Sloan. The most basic way I can put it that makes any sense to me will probably make about as much sense to you, which is just that as soon as I could wrap my head around the notion that as many people had seen the movie as they did, and how my life changed and how my life was going to change thereafter, that moment was already sort of rolling back with the tide. I just feel lucky that we got to make such a cool, irreverent take on it. Were approximately 15 seconds into our conversation when Donald Faison starts shouting into his phone. The girl singing in the video is Allie Sherlock, and she was performing this song on Grafton Street in . The film is a satirical comedy about a trio of girls who are discovered by a music executive and are subsequently groomed to become a pop sensation. Tempest is the oldest contestant to ever appear on RuPaul's Drag Race. One of the best examples comes courtesy of Missi Pyle, who plays Alexandra Cabot, the mean, stuck-up twin sister of band manager Alexander Cabot (Paulo Costanzo). Yo, 100 percent, I was into *NSYNC, dude. They are based on the Archie comics characters of the same name. I hope that we see you again if this doesn't work." : Were you auditioning for She's All That around the same time? : So obviously that explodes and everyone puts the "It girl" label on you. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. As a hilarious touch, the video stars Canadian comedy legend Eugene Levy appearing as himself, who walks the audience through the entire process. Boy bands, they werent into that. Josie and the Pussycats: Directed by Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan. Released on April 11, 2001, the movie grossed just $14 million and was pannedsometimes savagely soin almost every review. Rachael Leigh Cook is an American actress who first came to prominence in her starring role in the 1998 film Shes All That. ME. Cook first came to prominence in her starring role in the 1998 film She's All That. It did feel very damning that people who were supposedly incredibly savvy weren't getting it. It was years before all the glitter left my life. We did it every day for like a couple months." Hollywood was in the midst of a gold rush to get as much advertising money as possible, and product placement was seen as an easy way to make extra cash. It's just really hard to keep going, especially at the level of vibrancy we needed for the movie. I remember watching She's All That, which was a very important movie for me in my adolescence, and thinking of you as so poised and mature and adult. In advance of their first world tour, megastars DuJour perform their breakout hit "Backdoor Lover" (a song that has some pretty interesting lyrics) on a tarmac before hopping in their plane. The company has produced the films The Tracey Fragments (2007), which Cook starred in and co-wrote, and The Vampire Diaries (20092017), in which Gillies starred. I was like, "I'm not fired? : Over time though, Josie transforms into a cult classic and people are rediscovering it while new generations are finding it and appreciating the humor. Are Josie and the Pussycats in Riverdale? : So you were 20 years old when you filmed Josie. Of course, this is a clever and extraordinarily brief reference to Alexandra's character in the original Archie comics, not to mention the fact that she serves no actual purpose in the context of the movie's story, as well as a hilarious and super meta moment. Even if the music felt juvenile or if the presentation wasnt necessarily aimed at me, I kept meeting these guys at MTV Awards or at different events, and they were all really talented and super excited and living their dreams. A cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" was featured on the soundtrack album while co-lead vocalist Holloway mimicked young Michael Jackson's singing style. DMCA| As Rachael Leigh Cook joked years later to The AV Club, "Somehow, they gave one of the title roles to me, and I cannot sing at all. I would've remembered. E! Trainor will join Maroon 5 on tour in May. JC [Chasez] could really sing. RIDE ON YOUR MOTORBIKES WITH DU JOUR. But I do think it really was a definitive movie for girls growing up at that time, but without the Internet or the reach of a streaming service, they didn't really have a space to come together and share their connection to the movie. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Josie and the Pussycats (2001), The Safety of Objects (2001), and the science fiction thriller Surrogates (2009). Became one of the cultural obsession with the cookie-cutter boy bands of the singles charted, in... 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